The More You Know: PSN Content Can Be Region Locked

Chris writes: "It seems that there is a way for publishers to lock content based on the region you are accessing from. I tried to access the game via my Japanese PSN account and it would not work either. While this shouldn’t alarm anyone, I mean this is a Japanese karaoke game, but I am just posting this to let you know it exists. Hopefully publishers continue with the status quo and do not region lock proper games."

So what'll be folks, regional locks on all games (bye Japanese PSN games played on US account) or limited game sharing? I'll take limited game sharing please. But yeah, I hope publishers won't ever do this though.

At least we should be thanking Sony for making the disc games open region this gen.

It means that not only do we get to play games normally not available in our region, but we can also play them without the need of another console from a different region, or waiting for them to be released in our region.

So I applaud Sony for making that decision. with the PS3, PSP UMDs and I hope the PS Vita is the same way. Microsoft took a similar route too although it's still up to the devs and publishers to lock the region or not.

The other guys (Ninty) STILL remain adamant - they won't make their content region free, down to most of their portables as well. I hope this will perhaps change next gen with the WiiU? (I doubt it!) I understand reasons to region lock content, such as pricing issues, wouldn't that give customers a greater choice in where to buy their content?

well, it says PSN content CAN be region locked. I haven't seen much of it though. Like some demos or games from my Japanese PSN account I can still play on my US Ps3. I've only run into a few items that were region locked.